International

31-03-2023 NEW YORK: A New York grand jury on Thursday indicted Donald Trump over hush money payments made to a porn star during his 2016 campaign, making him the first former US president to face criminal charges. The historic indictment of the 76-year-old Republican who denies all wrongdoing in connection …

31-03-2023 LONDON: Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is dramatically slowing down the flow of water through the world’s oceans and could have a disastrous effect on global climate, the marine food chain, and even the stability of ice shelves, new research says. The “overturning circulation” of the oceans driven by the …

31-03-2023 JERUSALEM: Shimon Mizrahi points from his apartment balcony out to a large two-lane road. On the other side is a synagogue, where children are playing. The retiree lives in Neve Yaakov, a settlement in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem that is considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. He …

31-03-2023 NEW YORK: The Russian authorities may have shut down his newspaper, but journalist Dmitry Muratov refuses to be silenced. When we meet in Moscow, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Russia’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate is worried how far the Kremlin will go in its confrontation with the West. …

31-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australia’s parliament has passed breakthrough climate laws targeting the nation’s worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about 5 percent each year. The laws apply to 215 major industrial facilities, each producing more than 100,000 tons of greenhouse …

31-03-2023 BEIJING/ TAIPEI: Asia must avoid “chaos and conflicts” or the region’s future will be lost, Chinese Premier Li Qiang has said. Speaking to an international audience of political and business leaders on Thursday, Li said China can be an “anchor for world peace” and stability, and will continue undertaking …

31-03-2023 MELBOURNE/ LONDON/ TOKYO: Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed concern over the Myanmar military’s dissolution of the country’s former ruling party, warning the move could bring further instability to the violence-wracked country. The statements of concern on Wednesday came a day after the Myanmar …

31-03-2023 MOSCOW: Russian authorities have detained an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service (FSB), the top KGB successor agency, said on Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, suspected of trying to obtain classified information. It …

30-03-2023 WASHINGTON: Several casualties have been reported as the two US Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed in the northwest of Kentucky during a training mission Wednesday night, resulting in “several casualties,” officials said. The helicopters, from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), crashed at around 10 pm in Kentucky’s Trigg …

30-03-2023 DUBAI: DUBAI: United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has appointed his eldest son Sheikh Khaled as crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich capital of the Gulf state, and named his brothers to top roles, state media said on Wednesday. Sheikh Mohammed, who became president …